Democratic Palestine : 37 (ص 25)
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The Arab Situation
and the Intifada
This article was written by George Hawi, general secretary of the
Lebanese Communist Party, on the occasion of the PFLP’s 22nd
anniversary.
The 22nd anniversary of the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine
occurs as the glorious intifada is enter-
ing its third year - more consolidated,
broader and more determined. The
convergence of the two events is not a
coincidence, for the celebration of the
PFLP’s 20th anniversary highlighted
one of the main factors that led to the
outbreak of the uprising. It is not true
that the intifada was born an orphan;
that nobody is behind it; that it
resulted from objective conditions
alone, or is purely an expression of the
masses’ spontaneous will to confront
the occupation and achieve indepen-
dence. The subjective factor played an
active role in paving the way for the
intifada, specifically the action of the
organized militant forces among the
masses, and the various methods of
struggle they adopted. The PFLP is
one of the forces of the Palestinian
revolution and the PLO, which par-
took in this process, along with all the
forces, parties and mass organizations
that reject occupation. All these forces
contributed to the outbreak of the
intifada.
It has been said that the uprising is
the movement of the whole people and
Democratic Palestine, February 1990
that it is greater than the organizations
combined. And why not? This does
not belittle the role of the forces of the
revolution. On the contrary, the role
of the organization becomes most
prominent when it operates not in iso-
lation, but as an organizer of the mas-
ses’ struggle - stimulating their poten-
tials and igniting their capabilities. The
accumulation of struggles is not a mere
quantitative sum, but rather creates a
new situation which qualitatively sur-
passes the quantitative accumulation.
Consequently, all the struggles of the
Palestinian people, in and outside of
the occupied territories, laid the
ground for the intifada.
I allow myself to credit the Lebanese
arena with having played an essential
role as well, both prior to the 1982
Israeli invasion, with the Palestinian-
Lebanese national steadfastness, and
after the invasion, with the rise of the
Lebanese national resistance against
the Israeli occupation, and the material
and moral victories it achieved. It was
an example of the tremendous popular
potentfals - Lebanese and Palestinian
which can be mobilized to confront the
occupation...Besides, we must not
forget the suffering and steadfastness
of the Palestinian camps in Lebanon.
It is in this context the celebrations of
the PFLP’s 20th anniversary played a
basic role in the struggle directed simul-
taneously against the Israeli occupation
and the reactionary Arab course which
was doing its best to confiscate Pales-
tinian national decision-making in prep-
aration for surrender, as at the Amman
Summit (1987). This struggle elevated
the potentials of the Palestinian people.
We should dedicate the celebration
of the PFLP’s anniversary to discussing
the task of protecting and developing
the intifada, to enable it to succeed.
Of course, there is insufficient room in
an article for all the discussion needed.
Hence, based on awareness of the
centrality of this issue in the overall
pan-Arab struggle, the Lebanese Com-
munist Party is convening a Lebanese-
Arab-international seminar on_ the
occasion of the intifada entering its
third year. We prepared this seminar
in coordination with the PFLP, hoping
that in addition to being a demonstra-
tion of solidarity, it would be an occa-
sion for the leaders of Arab organiza-
tions and revolutionary and nationalist
intellectuals to discuss their obligations
in supporting the intifada. Here I will
focus on the main points to be discus-
sed...
1. On the Palestinian level
The Palestinian arena remains the
party most capable of determining the
line of the intifada, and fortifying it
against the excessive Zionist repression
on the one hand, and the attempts at
aborting and containing it made by
imperialism and Arab_ reactionary
regimes on the other. Also, we must
not forget the attempts of the Palesti-
nian right wing to adopt policies that
would ultimately lead to weakening the
intifada and pushing it towards failure.
This poses certain tasks: bolstering
the organizational structures which
guide the intifada: consolidating the
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